A retired Florida couple described as inseparable during their 51-year marriage was also inseparable in death — dying of COVID-19 on Sunday just six minutes apart.
Stuart Baker, 74, and Adrian Baker, 72, of Boynton Beach, were had been healthy before contracting the coronavirus in mid-March, CNN reported.
Stuart was hit harder by the virus at first, and he was admitted to a hospital intensive care unit.
Adrian, meanwhile, had been recovering at home, but her condition deteriorated when she learned her husband was in the ICU, the network reported.
When both were judged to be near death, they were moved into the same hospice room and taken off their ventilators so they could die together.
Their death was revealed by their son, Buddy Baker, a longtime NFL agent.
“In loving memory of my mom and dad – please make the tough and right choice and stop the spreading of this virus,” the son said in a moving video on Twitter.
“Until it touches you, or touches somebody you know or you hear a story, you kind of feel removed from it,” Baker, president of Exclusive Sports Group, told CNN.
“Hopefully, my parents’ passing doesn’t go in vain.”
